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J. J. PETERS VACUUM CLEANER Filed Oct. 4, 1923 Inventory John J`. Pezers, 6g

A ttorney.

Patented Nov. 11, 1924.

UNiTED STAT-Eis 1,514,723 .PATENT oFElc-E.

JOHN J. PETERS, F ELWEIN, II-IWA, ASSIGNOB OF ONE-THIRD 10V BEN J. M`DONNELL,

' 0F WATERLOO, IOWA. l f

VACUUM erahnen;

Application led ctober 4, 1923. Serial No. 666,528.

To all whom t may concern.:

Be it known that I, JOHN J. PETERS, a citizen of the United .States of America, and a resident'of Oelwein, Fayette County, Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vacuum Cleaners, of l whichfthe following is aspeciication.

. cent to the 'air-exhausting' My invention relates to improvements in vacuum cleaners, and the object of my improvement is to improve-the manner of collecting and ltering within the apparatus.

These objects I have accomplished. by the means which are hereinafter described andclaimed and which are illustrated inl the accompanying drawings, it being understood that changesA in the precise em-v bodiment of invention herein disclosed can` be made within the scopeof what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

vIn said drawings, Fig. 1 is a vertical central section of the dust collector and filtering device of the apparatus, and Fig. 2 is. y g

. and concentric with the pintles `25. Short 2 integral with its top land upon which is.

terminally removably mounted end of a flexible hose 10.

The receptacle 1 has a port 15 a short distance below its top in communication with a pipe 18 by way of a stop-cock 17 having a manually. operable handle 16, the pipe 18 being tapped into the wall 19v of some apparatus for exhausting air' from said receptacle 1, such as the upper part of the inlet manifold of an internal` combustion engine of the type employed on motor vehicles.

The receptacle 1 vis preferably constructed with both u per and lower sections 1 and 3 respectively, the lower secthe delivery tion or member being of cupped shape to ymovably and adjustably thereon by Va threaded connection 5. However, any other kind of securing means may be employed in this relation as desired.Y l

The receptacle may be supported adjameans 1n any desired manner, such as ing secured vremovabl on av cowly wall Yof' a motor ve-V hicle. e ruiineral 27 'denotes a like pair ing means for the receptacle.

seats 24 to lockingly receive squaredv nuts 26, the latter mounted on the inwardly dish posed threaded ends of lshort bolts 25 which traverse registering holes in the arms 27 andthe ring to serve as supporting p'intles for the rin which is positioned between the arms tiltably: The ringJ 20-lisa split-ring with out-turnedl arallel .ends 21 connected together adjustigly 1 by means ot' a bolt- 22 andwing-nut; 23. Referring to said n Figs 2, the ring 20| hasat opposite sides integral hangers or., depending pro-y jections 32 rovided ,with vertical slots 34. The arms 2 "have: integral depending projections or plate 'members 31*'which' over-y lie the lother pro=jections32 and have trans-V verse curvato' slots 33 which cross the said vertical slots 34. the slots 33 Abeing arcuate bolts '35 traverse the crossedv slots 33 and 34, andare provided with nuts36, whereby the projections 32 may be tilted" togetherv 'l -with'thering 20 and the receptacle 1 when clamped within the ring, to properly maintain'the receptacle in a vertical position, as thepipe 18 is not relied upon as a support- Within the' receptaclel is mounted a hollow inverted cone 4 with open upper end which is shaped to closely fit against the abutting inner wall 'of the receptacle upper member 1, and this conestructure 4 may be inte al with or fixed to the top center of and immerse the porous material 7 in whole or in part, .so that the porosities thereof may fill with water by capillaryl attraction or mere submergence.; r Y

ottoni-of the lower cupped member 3,-

Thelnu'meral 9' .denotes a conical dust- 'l contact therewith.-

textile, or other substance hvinginany minute apertures thereover. The upper wider end of this bag or sack 9 is mounted around a ring 8 held between the upper edge of the cone 4 and the top of the part 1 at .its interior angle, so that the material 9 surrounding'the ring serves as a packing therefor and making a closed connection. The port 2 opens into the upper open end of the sack 9. The sack is spaced apart from the inner wall of the cone 4 to'not When the air-exhausting apparatus is in operation, whether bythe means previously described or otherwise, the stop-cockv 17 being opened, the air in the receptacle 1-2 is exhausted in turn' exhausting the air in the tube 10 and nozzle 12. A A

Dust laden air being drawn into the nozzle and thence into the receptacle 1, passes downwardly and is, separated from nearly all of itsv dust cont-nt by the reticulated sack `9. Whatever finer Ydust traverses the sack downwardly is drawn into' the sponge strainer 7, and the cleansed air passes, the ports 6 'and then upwardly to the ort to discharge it into the pipe 18 and inlet manifold of the engine, or into other air-exhausting apparatus.

By detaching the member 3 from the re-v ceptacle member 1, the water inthe former which may have been somewhat defiled by finer dust, may be emptied, and the s onge 7 removed for cleansing, or water orced through the sponge while in the cone to wash 1t out. The ring 8 and sack may also be removed to em ty out its contents..

Having descri d my invention, what thereon, said'lower member having a hol? low inverted cone rising from its bottom into the upper member with the upper edge of the cone closed against the interior wall its lower endka porous filtering body-closing said port, a ring secured in the upper cnld of the upper member around the First mentioned port, and a reticulated 'dust collectorsack mounted on said ring to depend within the cone in spaced relation to the latter.

2. In combination, a closed (lust-collecting receptacle having both inletand outlet-ports, a porous sack inclosing the inletort and depending into the receptacle, an imperforate hollow body within and spaced from lthe' receptaclesurrounding said sack tn seal the upper end of the-sack between the inletort and the interspace of the said body and) receptacle, said body having an open v lower end in communication with -said interspace, and a porous strainer-body,T

positioned across said open lower end for immersion in a liquid placed in said receptacleto cover the said open lower end only, said outlet-port being loca-ted in said receptacle above the level of said open lower end and said liquid.

Signed at Waterloo, Iowa, this 8th day of Sept., 1923.

i JOHN J.` PETERS,

`of the latter, said cone having a port in A 

